Afghanisthan :A massive landslide, buried an Afgan village, Aab Bareek in the Badakhshan province, and killed more than 300 people. Hundreds of others were either missing or feared dead officials said. Resuce teams rushed to the scene on satuday, in the hope of finding any survivors. According to locals two successive landslides hit the village within an hour.Badakhshan is a remote, mountainous province in northeast Afghanistan bordering Tajikistan, China and Pakistan.
President Hamid Karzai expressed his condolences to those affected and said immediate action was being taken to find any survivors
According to the the United Nations, 350 people had died, and local officials said more than 2,000 were still missing more than 20 hours after the disaster.
Local people used shovels to search for persons trapped under a massive river of mud and rocks that engulfed the village, leaving little sign of the hundreds of homes it destroyed. Subesequently, Emergency workers arrived at the scene on Saturday morning to be confronted by the enormous scale of the landslide, hundreds of homeless families and the risk of more earth sweeping down the hillside.
It is learnt that the people were at Friday prayers in two mosques when they were entombed by a tide of debris, and the second landslide hit many who had rushed to assist those in need.
US President Barack Obama described the deaths as “an awful tragedy” and pledged to help the relief effort.
